Ransom v. City of South Bend
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Pacific county, Rice, J., entered April 9, 1913, upon the pleadings and plaintiff’s opening statement, dismissing an action for personal injuries sustained in a fall upon a sidewalk.
1Opinion of the CourtGose, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from a fall upon a sidewalk upon one of the streets of the defendant, a city of the third class. She alleges that she sustained the injury in consequence of *397the defendant’s negligence in this: that it permitted an obstruction, consisting of a timber two inches by four inches and about six feet in length, nailed diagonally to the sidewalk, to remain upon the walk for more than a week prior to the date of her injury, without having provided a barrier, light, or other warning to indicate the presence of the danger. She…
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